Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Services About SEAFDEC AQUACULTURE DEPARTMENT www.seafdec.org.ph The station accommodates students, technicians, and all interested parties for study- visits and hands-on training on brackishwater aquaculture. DBS staff also provides technical services to fish farmers by offering consultation on culture of fish and crustaceans in ponds. The station also accepts samples for water and soil quality analyses. Dumangas Binangonan Freshwater Station Brackishwater

Dumangas Brackishwater Station Station

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Lectures on production of economically important Production harvest at DBS aquaculture species in ponds (seabass; top and snapper; below) www.maphill.com

THE CHIEF The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC)is an SEAFDEC/AQD autonomous intergovernmental body established as a regional treaty organization 5021, , in December 1967 to promote fisheries development in the region through Trunklines connecting all offices: +63 33 330 7000 research, training and information services. Its member countries include Brunei Fax: +63 33 330 7002 Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Email: [email protected] Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. www.seafdec.org.ph Dumangas Brackishwater Station The Aquaculture Department (AQD), one of SEAFDEC’s five departments, © SEAFDEC/AQD 2017 Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines is mandated to implement programs in research, technology verification and Telefax: +63 33 527 3016 demonstration, and training and information dissemination in order to promote responsible aquaculture in Southeast Asia. conducted. Current research focuses on determining the feasibility of mangrove TheDumangas Brackishwater Station (DBS) of SEAFDEC Aquaculture Oyster crab and blue swimming crab (Portunus pelagicus) nursery in net cages inside ponds. Nursery and grow-out of Department is about 20 km northeast of , Philippines. DBS has a 16- Likewise, soft-shell crab production using hatchery-produced seedstocks is being ha pond area intended to verify research and demonstrate developed aquaculture hatchery-produced oyster demonstrated. technologies. It houses a staff field office, dormitory for trainees, and a field (Crossostrea iredalei) in pond are currently being demonstrated. laboratory for routine water and soil quality analyses. History Seaweeds A study on the pond The research ponds were production of Gracilariopsis donated by the Philippine’s heteroclada using short term Department of Agriculture nitrogen-enriched plant to SEAFDEC/AQD materials is being demonstrated Nursery and grow-out culture of hatchery- in 1998 and has since at the station. produced oyster spats hosted various research, technology verification and Crab fattening in bamboo pens Soft-shell crab production set-up demonstration studies. Biosecurity measures Research and verification studies Milkfish To prevent the occurrence and spread Several studies were done on the of diseases, proper biosecurity measures improvement and verification of are implemented. There are quarantine Tiger shrimp and white shrimp grow-out culture techniques of The technology for the farming and laboratory facilities to support milkfish Chanos( chanos) in ponds. the biosecurity measures at DBS. The of tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) Recent study on milkfish focuses on using environment-friendly station’s stocks are also monitored verification of feeds using alternative routinely by AQD’s disease-diagnostic schemes was developed and verified ingredients in pond culture systems. in DBS. Studies on nutrient laboratory in SEAFDEC’s Tigbauan dynamics of shrimp culture systems Main Station. DBS has laboratory facilities to Milkfish (Chanos chanos) and bioremediation strategies were Marine fishes support biosecurity measures The activities conducted in the also conducted. White shrimp, station include the following: verification and demonstration of nursery and grow- Penaeus indicus, are also being Tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) out of snapper (Lutjanus argentimaculatus), grouper (Epinephalus coioides and E. grown to marketable size for fuscoguttatus), rabbitfish Siganus( guttatus), pompano (Trachinotus blochii) and sea verification study. bass (Lates calcarifer). Production runs are currently being done to demonstrate the Mangrove crab (mud crab) feasibility of nursery and grow-out culture in ponds. and blue swimming crab Research activities on mangrove crab (Scylla serrata) include polyculture with milkfish and monoculture in ponds. Likewise, demonstration and verification of mangrove-friendly aquaculture Quarantine tanks Filtration system in pens for crab fattening were White shrimp (Penaeus indicus) Grouper Sea bass Snapper Rabbitfish